Kidspiration

Kidspiration is a really awesome interactive program that all students can benefit from. It offers activities for students in every area and is very user friendly. I am a first grade teacher and was able to incorporate this into my current math lessons. My students have been working on place value using the base ten blocks. Kidspiration has a base ten blocks activity that my students took turns using on our 2 class computers yesterday. They loved it and it seemed to give them a further understanding of place value. I also love what it has to offer in the science and social studies sections...There is something for most grade levels and it seems to work in conjunction with a lot of the state standards. As I mentioned in my previous blogs, I work in a private school...unfortunately my school does not have many resources for science or social studies for the primary grades, in fact I don't even have a set of text books in either of these subjects...With so much to offer in both these areas, Kidspiration is a great tool to aid in teaching them. Above all my favorite part is how easy it is to use, and how appealing the colors and graphics are...these qualities definitely help to keep kids engaged.